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1 ake 20 minutes to make learning together part of your everyday. www.

2 ake 20 minutes to make learning together part of your everyday. 1 wonder why? Go online as a family and learn something new. ver wonder why the ocean and sky are blue? 12 ell it to me: ell someone about your day at dinnertime or pick-up the phone for a chat. What was the best part? ead NYHNG! book, blog, magazine or letter from grandma. ead together and get in your 20 minutes each day. Be a ockstar: ing along with the radio or do Karaoke maybe a duet? Make something yummy: Follow a family recipe or create a new one together. ravel the world: Your library card is your passport to travel the world and to take a learning journey. Jot that down: Write an , letter, blog post or text your family and friends. Which is the most fun? cientist in the House: Do a kitchen experiment or mix up a batch of playdough. t goes something like this: ell your favourite story and give it a new ending, or take turns making up a new story. Crafty Crafter: Paper, glue, yarn, paint so many things to create! Do a craft together. tepper challenge: Go for a walk and count your steps. How many steps to school, the park, your friend s house? Deal me in: Play cards and keeping score is a fun way to practice counting hopper ime: Make a grocery list together with kids finding what s on the list and checking off the items (and maybe adding one special treat!) m on taycation: vacation at home can be lots of fun. Plan a trip in your neighbourhood. iddle me his: ell jokes and riddles while doing chores around the house can you stump your parents? Know your hood: Draw a map of your neighbourhood, adding in important places like school, library, doctor and pet store! Game-N! Play a board game and plan a family game night invite your neighbours. tory Dynamo: Make-up a story and draw a picture to go with it. First, show the picture to your friend and see if they can tell you what your story is about. Building Buddies: Build something together with modeling clay or building blocks. Check out what Family Literacy Day Honourary Chair Barbara eid can do with modeling clay! Did you Know? each someone you know something new. Did you learn why the ocean and sky are blue yet? 2

3 My Family Literacy Day tory Write a funny story with friends and family. sk them to give you the word for each blank. Make sure you don t read the story until they ve filled in each blank! Family Literacy Day is super! very year we get Definitions adjective to spend a whole day doing fun learning activities. We like to keep learning together all year long in our family. ometimes read books and sometimes. eading is plural noun fun because it helps me learn about cool things like and. My favourite book plural noun plural noun is because it is. title adjective Family Literacy Day isn t just about reading, though. You can do other activities to learn with your family like following a recipe, djective: word that describes a noun. xciting, funny and super are examples of adjectives. Noun: word that is a person, place or thing. Comics, monkeys, mom and North Pole are examples of proper nouns. singing songs and playing games. like word games, and is fun to play too. ven karaoke and board game surfing websites help you learn. My favourite karaoke song to sing is and like to surf the nternet to song Verb: n action word that is the main part of a sentence. Play, dance and jump are examples of verbs. find out about hobby. My favourite part about Family Literacy Day is that get to verb with my family and do fun learning activities. We love to celebrate learning everyday! Doing activities together for at least 20 minutes a day will help me become adjective smart! 3

4 Color Math Have fun colouring and practicing your math at the same time! Legend 8= 9= 10= 11= green brown red yellow 12= pink 13= purple 14= bue

5 Make Dough for Play! ngredients fun activity to make dough together and then be building buddies with your family. 1 ¼ cups of flour ¼ cup of salt 1 package of dry unsweetened juice crystals 1 cup of boiling water, cooled down so you can touch it 1 ½ tablespoons of vegetable oil Directions Get a large bowl. Mix the flour, salt and dry juice crystals in the bowl. dd the water and vegetable oil to the large bowl and stir. Mix with your hands for about 5 minutes, until smooth and the dough is all one colour. Put the playdough in a zipper bag to keep it soft for up to 2 months. ip Use food colouring instead of juice crystals to make different colours of playdough. Now that you ve made your playdough, it s time to be creative! Make each of the letters of your name and spell your name. ake a picture and put it on the refrigerator. Make a set of dice to use when you play a board game. Make a squiggly snake or pretty flower. he possibilities are endless! 5

6 6 Family Literacy Day Word earch F U N Q W U F Q F W D Y Y P G K L D M G Z N H C V Y C V B M G V M L Q H N K J N G C Y U H D U M Y W P W B K V Z Q N P L L N G C P J D W C Y K J P U Z Z L X U P M C BK CMPU CWD DY FMLY FCN FUN GM LCY MGZN MH PY PUZZL D CP NG PLLNG Y UF W Words to find

7 Family Literacy Crossword Fill in the crossword with the picture clues. Book Family ing chool Map Game Library Cook Paint 7

8 Follow a ecipe ngredients Make Jam-Filled French oast andwiches together as a family. 1 cup of milk 4 eggs 4 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 8 slices of bread 8 tablespoons fruit jam Directions Get a large bowl (big enough to fit a slice of bread) and mix the milk and eggs in the bowl. Get a small bowl and mix the sugar and cinnamon in the bowl. pread jam on one side of each slice of bread. Put two pieces of bread together to make a jam sandwich. 5. Dip the jam sandwich into the large bowl, turning it over to cover the sandwich on both sides with the milk and eggs mix. Work with an adult for these next steps: ip Use maple syrup, honey, peanut butter or fruit slices instead of jam! Lightly grease a frying pan and warm it on the stove top. Put the jam sandwich in the frying pan. Cook for two minutes on one side and flip to cook other side until golden brown on both sides. prinkle the sugar and cinnamon on top of each sandwich. erve warm. 8

9 Have fun with colours! Directions 1. Colour the provinces that begin with the letters, B and in red utline the bodies of water in blue. How many of them can you name? hade in the tlantic provinces in green. Can you count how many there are? Colour the erritories in yellow. Can you name them from West to ast? Draw happy faces in the province that has the most French speaking people. his province is almost in the middle of Canada. he Province to the west of it is the only province without natural borders. Colour these in brown. 9

10 How to play: 1. Play a Game: nap! Number of players: 2+ Cards: tandard deck of 52 cards. wo decks can be used for more than three players. Choose a card dealer to deal all the cards face down to players. ome players may have more cards than others, but this is okay. Players do not look at their cards but keep them face down in individual stacks he player to the left of the dealer starts the game by turning their top card face up next to their card pile. he next player does the same until a player notices a match (Note: f a player runs out of face down cards, they can shuffle the face up pile and use them.) he first player to notice that two cards in the face up piles are the same (such as two jacks or two sixes) shouts snap! and receives all cards in both of the matched piles, adding the cards to the bottom of their face down pile. he game continues with the next player turning a card over. f two players shout snap! at the same time, they form a snap pool of their pile of cards with the two matched piles of cards placed together in the centre. Play continues until someone turns up a card that matches the top card in the snap pool. Whoever shouts snap pool! first takes the whole pool and adds it to the bottom of their face down pile. f a player mistakenly shouts snap! they have two options: a) give every player one card from their face down pile, or b) their entire face down pile becomes a new snap pool. f a player has no more face up or face down cards they are out of the game. 7. he winner of the game is the player with all of the cards. 10

11 he Magic of cience Many of our favourite stories have a little magic in them. Have you ever wanted to mix up your own magic potion? s a family, try this experiment at home. t can get messy so be prepared! ngredients 2 tablespoons of ground-up hair of toad (baking powder) 1 teaspoon of broom cleaning solution (dish soap) a few drops of tears of a dragon (food colouring) ¼ cup of sweat from an ogre (vinegar) Directions n a tall container, mix together the hair of toad and broom cleaning solution. dd in the tears of dragon, and mix all together. When you are ready to get your potion brewing, say the magic words and add the sweat from an ogre as swiftly as possible. ip ry different amounts of each ingredient and see what happens. You never know the magic power you have until you try. 11

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